Quoting Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>>The SAN we have does not have average IO size. I know for > >>>sure 2.6 is way better on large IOs, I just dont know wether > >>>I can fully thrust iostat. What's your observeation with RH4 > >>>and the 2.6 kernel ? > > It passed through 512KB. That is what I've seen ... and that is > "good" > > You can trust iostat -x if you don't "snack" on the data...do something > like iostat -x 30 > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > Have you folks had any chance of trying out the different IO schedulers in 2.6? The anticipatory one seems to be the ticket for FTS-oriented systems. RH has an article on some benchmarks they did that seems to indicate the cfq is best overall for Oracle: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ Thoughts? -- Cheers Nuno Souto from sunny Sydney -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l